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Gotcha. I'm an X'er by the way, by a few years. I think he is too young (and unmarried) to understand what marriage is like. I think he is also, like you said, more attuned to the "reality" of the current dating world, and that you are correct that no-fault restrictions will more likely affect his generation. I think that that reality is unfortunate and that we as a society are losing sight of what a true commitment to a union is, and replacing it with a hedonistic approach, which was my initial point. Basically, lots of things can be right.

He doesn't even understand his own posts.

You are conflating gender dysphoria (a true mental disorder) with social influences on LGBTQ adoption. I have no trouble whatsoever with people with true gender dysphoria getting counseling and proper age-appropriate care, and respecting them as transgenders. That's how it used to be, before the social contagion.

Ah, that Leftie moral equivalency again. "Both sides do bad things." Jeebus.

Badass: https://x.com/YosephHaddad/status/1729924827840983522?s=20

Fair enough. I'll generalize it to say that they are playing to the Leftist marxists. "Hey simps, I know we violated the cease fire and sent rockets instead of hostages to Israel, but we are oppressed, woe is us$#@! Please go tell Israel to stop killing the civilians we are hiding behind so that we can send more bombs, mkay thanks!"

Cool. Since she is graduating early, if it is her thing, maybe she could take the summer off, do some (hopefully not expensive!) traveling, see the country or world. Once she starts in the real world, you know...

Yep, fighting resumed. https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/01/middleeast/israel-resumes-combat-operations-hamas-truce-expires-intl-hnk/index.html I love this part: They are playing folks like @The Real timschochetlike a fiddle, plucking all of the white guilt marxist oppressor/oppressed strings.

That's awesome! Does she know what she wants to do?

I don't think I ever contradicted your earlier post, or the point that online swipe dating changes the dynamics of dating. If you think I was, please clarify. IMO we are discussing a mechanism which contributed to my initial point.

I would say that strengthens my position, since "cultural appropriation" means that the message is for folks not of their culture. Or are you saying the kid from their tribe whose dad is on the council is not of their culture?

This is terrible science; I can't believe it was published. Their argument is that by looking at adults who identify as trans, and finding 40% of them felt that way as an adolescent, that ROGD doesn't hold. Yet ROGD, by their own definition, would result in adults who do not identify as trans. So there could be (hyperbolically) a billion adolescents who identified as trans who grew out of it by adulthood, and they would not have been involved in this study. This is logically absurd. Also, we've already discounted your and Squistion's insistence on using the APA, a political left group that does not itself practice, as a bad proxy for the opinions of actual psychologists.

Your article accidentally skipped a sentence in it's unbiased reporting: https://x.com/ProfBlackistone/status/1730279222566916272?s=20 Individuals are free to do what they want, but that does not mean it is their official position, which is to not dress like that, which makes sense as an official position. I think it is a stretch to say they are against what the kid did. It seems more like they are staying out of it. But that's just my read.

Good point, unfortunately. All good points. It's clear we are emasculated on a world stage, no leaders fear Biden. Lefties will say it's silly and it's just a coincidence that all of this is happening when a shell of a man is mumbling and bumbling around the White House.

Good one. I'll add this.

Women are programmed to be much more selective in their partners than men. If a caveman gets a cavewoman pregnant, he can just move on. If the cavewoman gets pregnant, she's got a multi-year commitment (cavebaby) to deal with. So a woman's instinct is to make sure she likes the guy and he is likely to stick around before sleeping with him. This flies in the face with the sexual liberation movement, which for every subsequent generation attempts to convince girls that they'll be happy if they sleep with a bunch of random doods. From what I've read, they aren't happier with that behavior. One link: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/10/sexual-partners-and-marital-happiness/573493/ Also, women slut shame because if another woman is slutty, that puts pressure on them to be slutty, and they don't want to do that. See above.

If he truly is a narcissist, you are probably right

Back to the OP, I think it's greta that people are still meeting up from here.

My sense is that Tubby is a large, tough guy IRL, but he sure is acting like a woman in this thread.

Thanks for steering us back to important things.

Also I don't remember what she drank; I'd have thought a beer, but I don't recall. I do remember that she didn't eat, and I thought we were grabbing food (I was visiting on work travel) so I ate an app or something.

I do not believe that people should get divorces because "Life is hard, relationships can be challenging, they are not always sunny-happy...." Particularly if you have kids.

This has been hashed and rehashed, I'm not getting into it again.

Sounds like a great deal. I bet you have women lined up applying for this position. Also, what is the incentive to break the contract?

It didn't go badly, I was a perfect gentleman. She's just trolling me.